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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: Jason <jason@borderpatrolclan.net>
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Subject: Re: disk full error???
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Sure, do a
# cd /
# du -skx * | sort -n

You'll get a per-directory list, with the least used first and the most used
last. Then cd to the most used directory and repeat the du until you find
what's eating all your disk space.

Some of the candidates are:

/tmp
/var/tmp
/var/mail
/var/log
/home


				Fer


On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Jason wrote:

> When I try to send e-mail I get a disk full error. If I go to my server and do a df I get the following:
>
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a     49583    48145    -2528   106%    /
> /dev/ad0s1e  38409661   500565 34836324     1%    /usr
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
>
> I don't know why /dev/ad0s1a is full and I have tried to find what might be taking up all of the space. I can't find anything. If I type du -x ad0s1a shows up as having 49583 blocks used, but I have no idea where these are. I relatively new to the UNIX like environment and I don't know what to do to solve this problem. Could someone please help me???
>
> Please respond to help@borderpatrolclan.net
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>


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